Which to use
“commande” and “commandes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,166
- “commande” frequency rank
- #3,523
- “commandes” frequency rank
- 5689
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | commande | commandes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Ordre donné à un fabricant, à un ouvrier, à un artiste de faire un certain ouvrage, ou à un marchand de faire une certaine livraison. | Pluriel de commande. |
Same sound, different letters: commande vs commandes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - commande and commandes
This is the hard kind. commande and commandes are pronounced identically (\kɔ.mɑ̃d\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “commande” sits inside “commandes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 5689, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
commande is recorded at frequency rank #2,166, classified as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃d\. commandes is at rank #3,523, tagged as anoun, pronounced \kɔ.mɑ̃d\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 5689, this pair ranks #428,320 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of commande vs commandes
Shared letters: acdemno. Private to "commande": -. Private to "commandes": s.
"commande" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "commandes" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "commande" and "commandes" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "commande" vs "commandes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "commande" / "commandes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "commande" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "commandes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #428,320 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "commande" and "commandes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "commandes vs commandites". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #428,320 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.